16 February 1942: Letter from Wrong to Robertson

Indeed, the Canadians had a difficult time even securing privacy for their diplomatic telephone conversations. In this letter to Norman Robertson, Hume Wrong at the Canadian Legation in Washington indicated that British officials had informed him the someone (most likely the FBI) was eavesdropping on the telephone conversations of diplomatic missions in Washington. Wrong noted that he had long suspected the Americans were listening in – in both Washington and Ottawa.